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I have tried. And I can't. It's just too slow when working with tons of output (which is common in my work). (term-mode is no better.) Emacs is one of my favourite tools on a compu…

What I didn't mention in my post was that I did use SQLAlchemy Core to write some pretty complicated queries. It's actually quite good. I like it. There were some spots that things…

> What if someone went around the entire country and put every book into a huge safe. Assuming "every book" includes books I own, then that constitutes theft.

Saying the PDF reader on Playbook works is like saying a bucket of cold water works for having a shower. I actually enjoy reading on a Playbook more than an iPad or a Kindle. But t…

> Where RIM went wrong was underestimating the importance of software and the surrounding ecosystem. RIM is quickly discovering that it is not a software company -- and never has b…

Taking into account the snark, it doesn't change the fact that you're presenting a false dichotomy. Ungar isn't saying that we have to give up determinism. What he's saying is that…

Or the SVN repositories of binaries that are 4G just on the trunk branch. The HDD basically never stops.

"It's not the language, honey, it's the runtime." (apologies to Indiana Jones)

> "A big corporation ripping off small businesses and independent artists is wrong." That's pretty specific. Why not "Ripping off is wrong"? I wonder the same thing when I hear "Vi…

The first step in saving my coder eyes is to not use light text with a dark background.

This sounds analagous to governing by polls.

I think of it as GNU/Xanadu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

No one I've ever met who has used Blackboard has ever expressed anything nice about it. Professor friends of mine actively avoid it; they use Wordpress instead. Others use Moodle. …

If I sign in with my Twitter/Facebook account, what do you do with it? Will things I say on WatchThis site show up on Twitter/Facebook? (I say this as someone looking to sign in an…

_"Pick one task around your house that needs doing that is small and can be done in short order and go take care of it."_ Doing the dishes is a good one. It doesn't take all that l…

It seems nice, but it's more of the same: programming by specification. There's a place for that, but the future of programming languages, in my mind, lies in changing the metaphor…

> "I honestly don't know what a lot of academics do a lot of the time," says Taylor. Perhaps he should talk to few. From my experience, it involves writing grants.

I hate to be a picky grammarian, but I would really appreciate it if this person would learn the difference between countable and uncountable nouns. http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/read…

I floated the idea of essay questions by the students for a 3rd year programming languages course I taught at university (in North America). I was just about run out of the classro…

I did a thesis that explored aspects of generating code that passed tests, but it was limited to deriving adequate structural representations based on behavioural specifications. T…

Same here. It has consistently gotten slower since the 0.9+ days. My simple test involves loading up Slime, opening a Lisp source file of moderate size and holding down C-n. The re…